To get a deeper understanding of text, students use close reading strategies to interact with the text using multiple methods. In an analog format, students use highlighters, sticky notes, columns, and writing to question and emphasize important points and questions. In a digital format, OneNote can be an easy digital alternative for teachers to use…
Much like how the Email as attachment… menu item speeds up sending a specific file format to a person, Email collaborators… makes it easy to send an email to everyone collaborating on the current document. Once the menu item is selected a window pops up. On the right will be a list of collaborators on…
Blab is a live-broadcasting app that streams video to a “Public” or “Unlisted” stream (host’s choice). With 4 “Open-Seats” available in each Blab, topic-driven conversations are shared with a live audience. Interaction also occurs via text through live audience participation. While anyone can call-in (or ask) for an “Open-Seat”, only the host can approve who…
Have you ever seen a school data wall? In a struggling Newark, N.J., public school, I’ve seen bulletin boards showing the test scores of each grade compared with state averages. And in one in affluent Silicon Valley, I’ve seen smartboards that track individual students’ math responses in real time. These kinds of public displays send…
There are many times when you may need to email the Google Doc that you are working on to someone else. To accomplish this feat, you can download the document from Google Drive or from Google Docs in the format that you want, and then attach that document to a new email. But there is…
The other thing that is not entirely obvious is that Playgrounds has full access to the entire iOS API. This means that there is effectively no limit on the complexity of Playground that you can build. You can use APIs like Core Location, WebKit, MapKit, Core Motion, Networking and Core Bluetooth. One of the demos…
There’s never been a better time to be a young programmer. Source: Apple, Microsoft and Google race to introduce your kid to coding – CNET Everything is math, and programming is math, so programming is everything. Some will dismiss this emphasis on programming, especially at the elementary level, but I believe that the ability to…
Google Docs makes it really easy to create a link to a pdf version of a Google Doc. Go to Sharing on the Google Doc, either click on Public on the web or Anyone with the link, depending on your comfort level of others finding your document. You then get a link to the Google…
Why be like everyone else, edit the Google Slides master to create custom themes! Source: Google Slides: Edit the Slide Master – Teacher Tech Great tip about Google Fonts! And for another example of customizing, check out my post on making Google Slides your own.
Android has come to the Asus Flip Chromebook! Google released Android on the ChromeOS developer channel this week, enabling Android apps to run on the Asus Flip Chromebook. Unboxing the $69 (currently $49) PocketCHIP My PocketCHIP finally came this week! Two presents in the same week. 4 Tools to Merge the Digital and Physical in…